Colour and Noise is an improvising quintet featuring compositions by Ashley Urquhart.
Performances by Tara Kannangara, Patrick O'Reilly, Alex Fournier, Aidan Sibley and Ashley Urquhart.

Recorded live at the Tranzac June 2018

Colour and Noise - Saguaro, Whale of the Desert

Colour and Noise - Quailudes

Colour and Noise - Objects Lost on Journeys

Featuring Tara Kannangara on vocals, "watch her disappear" sets text by Tom Waits to an original composition by Ashley Urquhart.
Recorded live at the Tranzac June 30, 2018

Colour and Noise is a 5 piece improvising ensemble based in Toronto, ON.
Ashley Urquhart - compositions and piano (prepared and standard)
Alex Fournier - bass
Patrick O'Reilly - guitar and noise
Aidan Sibley - trombone
Tara Kannangara - trumpet and voice

Colour and Noise - Watch Her Disappear

It's a blast from the past!

Composed and arranged by Ashley Urquhart for trio featuring Charles James on upright bass and Mackenzie Longpre on drums.  Recorded live at the Humber College theatre in 2008.

Almost Spring for Trio, 2008

Composed and arranged by Ashley Urquhart.  Recorded live in Walter Hall in 2011.



We have had this conversation before or, A Ballad

Recorded Live in 2010 at a Postlude Concert in Toronto's Koerner Hall.
Composition by Oscar Pettiford
Featuring:
Alex Fournier - Bass
Stefan Hegerat - Drums
Ashley Urquhart - Piano

Tricotism, Trio arrangement of of an Oscar Pettiford Composition

Kind Folk, composed by Kenny Wheeler arranged for Quartet
Recorded Live in 2010 at the Edward Johnson Building at the University of Toronto

Featuring:
Richard Piasetski - Drums
Matthew Fong - Bass
Michael Whyte - Trumpet
Ashley Urquhart - Piano

Kind Folk, arranged for quartet, composition by Kenny Wheeler

A piece of mine dating back to the mid oughts!  From a duo session with the one and only Alex Fournier

Almost Spring, Duo November 2019

Lake Affect is Ashley Urquhart (piano), Alex Fournier (bass) and Stefan Hegerat (drums).
We are not a weather system.  But we are what happens when Toronto winters get us down.

Saguaro Whale of the Desert is a composition by Ashley Urquhart.  Recorded October 2018 at the Tranzac in Toronto.

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